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In offering this Calendar of Memorial Inscription to the 
public, I wish to offer a caution with it. Persons engaged 
upon historical research know how imprudent it is to follow 
any one authority before first tracing up his methods of ob- 
taining his information. This is especially applicable in the 
matter of collecting inscriptions. I have found that where 
two or three persons have handed in the same, each vouching 
for its correctness, some difference is bound to occur. 

No one, who has not tried it, can have any conception of 
how much the copyist has to be prepared for, in order to give 
the inscriptions exactly. First there are the capitals in un- 
expected places, then there is the arbitrary mode of spelling, 
and the ye and ys for the and this; and then the numerals, 
where the 4 and 1, the 5, 3 and 8, or the 7 and 9 are often 
mistaken for eacn other. The matter of arranging the lines 
is another consideration, also the abrevations, which are often 
according to no modern rule. Knowing all these things, I 
have sought, wherever it has been impossible by actual 
investigation to verify the details about which my authorities 
differ, to give both versions, especially where the dates are 
concerned. The location, which has sometimes been exactly 
given, and the approximate dates are the principal things to 
lead persons in search of some particular ancestor, to find the 
memorial that will give them what they want. This Calendar, 
therefore stands in the position of a sign-post showing the 
way. 

If this caution is kept in mind, the book will fill a need 
that has long been felt in the community; for it will help to 
simplify the work of the Maryland genealogist, be he ama- 
teur, or be he fully armed with all the musty documents of 
the fraternity. 



SIntrnbitrttnn. 

An Irishman who farmed a portion of an old Maryland 
estate was one day discovered ploughing up the ancient 
family burying-ground. Upon being expostulated with by a 
much outraged neighbor, he replied: "Shure an there 
oughtn't to be no cimiteries in the counthry any how, people 
ought to be buried at the church." Pat little knew and as 
little cared that he was attacking one of Maryland's time 
honored customs, or infringing the law made for its protec- 
tion. 

In the history of the early settlements along the Chesa- 
peake and its tributaries, there is found a continuity of 
English customs adapted to new conditions; and during the 
sixty years that elapsed between the arrival of the first 
colonists and the historic period of church building in Mary- 
land, manorial customs in modes of sepulture prevailed. In 
fact the burial of the dead on the home plantation— or near 
the chapel of the Lord of the Manor, as we have reason to 
believe was the habit among the Catholics— continued even 
after the enactment of laws for the building of churches or 
the walling in of church yards. 

Some of the most interesting monuments of bye-gone 
days have been found on out-of-the-way farms, and even 
where monuments are wanting, tradition often indicates the 
spot where some manor-lord or colonial governor lies buried. 
The various stones, tablets and traditions, still remaining, 
serve to revive much of Maryland's primitive social life. Had 
it not been for the vandalism of the ignorant and the indiffer- 
ence of others, more might now be found to supply missing 
links in county records, or to fill the gaps in carelessly kept 
parish registers. 

Nearly eighteen years ago the Maryland Historical Society, 
which in early days was composed entirely of men, adopted 
the following resolution presented by Rev. George A. Leakin: 

Whereas, there yet remain in the State of Maryland numerous burial 
grounds, public and private, containing Epitaphs of colonial citizens who 
have rendered valuable service in various official positions or in the faith- 
ful discharge of social and domestic duties ; and it being very desirable 



that such names be kept from obliteration ;— Resolved that the Maryland 
Historical Society appoint a Committee of Seven (with the power to fill 
vacancies) who shall report to a subsequent meeting the expediency of 
enlisting the aid of Historical Societies in the Counties, Local Committees, 
the Public Press and Ministers of different denominations, with the view 
of obtaining such names for permanent preservation in the Archives of 
this Society. ' ' 

The committee of seven was appointed, but its worthy- 
efforts were without result; the probable excuse being that 
it had been found impossible to arouse sufficient general in- 
terest to carry it into effect. As a matter of fact man's help- 
meet woman was not called upon to lend her aid. Her 
fecundity of resource, her drill in matters of detail and above 
all her well known persistency, of which the ' ' Importunate 
Widow" furnishes the type, were completely ignored. 

When, however, the Maryland Society of the Colonial 
Dames of America announced itself ready to undertake the 
work, the masculine body, through some of its members, gave 
cordial encouragement to the enterprise of the "Dames," 

The facts collected in this book are the result of an inves- 
tigation set on foot by the latter, in hope that a more general 
knowledge of such things might quicken an interest in the 
preservation of our ancient monuments and places of burial. 
Through its "Memorial Committee," which has had the work 
in charge, much has already been done in a quiet way, by 
seeking out the descendants of the departed and obtaining 
their co-operation in the rescue of isolated stones. The latter 
have been found in fields, by the road-side and beneath dwell- 
ings, also in use as doorsteps or as flagstones with the incrip- 
tions turned under. By the efforts of the committee some of 
these have been removed to the nearest church-yard, where 
they stand a better chance of remaining unmolested, while 
others have been restored, railed-in or otherwise protected. 

To the workers themselves, who have been delegated to 
explore the counties, it has proved a revelation indeed to dis- 
cover, so near home, unsuspected nooks and corners of inter- 
est left undisturbed by the march of progress. It is in these 
sequestered neighborhoods that the work of the Memorial 
Committee has aroused the keenest interest and met with the 
most cordial response. By the assistance of both men and 
women recruits, thickets have been penetrated, traditionary 



graveyards traced, shattered tablets fitted together and 
inscriptions copied or verified. 

The names of the Memorial Committee are as follows : 



Mrs. Matthew Atkinson. Mrs. 

Mrs. Robert Atkinson. Mrs. 

Mrs. James Bateman. Mrs. 

Mrs. Belknap. Mrs. 

Mrs. Eugene Blackford. *Miss 

Mrs. a. H. Blackiston. Mrs. 

Miss Ida Brent. Miss 

Mrs. Tracy Browne. Miss 

Mrs. Roberdeau Buchanan. Mrs. 
Mrs. Charles Baltimore Calvert. Mrs. 

"Mrs. Duncan Campbell. Mrs. 

Miss Campbell. Miss 

Miss Mary C. Carter. Mrs. 

Mrs. Thomas C. Chatard. *Mrs. 

Mrs. Burton Crane, nee Smith. Mrs. 

Miss Daves. Mrs. 

Miss Mary Davis. Miss 

Miss Ella Loraine Dorsey. Mrs. 

Miss Isabel Earle. Miss 

Mrs. Alex. Early. Mrs. 

Mrs. Charles Gibson. *Mrs. 

Mrs. Wm. H. Gill. Miss 

Mrs. Wm. Goldsborough. Mrs. 

Mrs. Monte Griffith. Mrs. 

Mrs. George W. S. Hall. Mrs. 

Mrs. Wm. T. Hamilton. Miss 

Mrs. K. Kearney Henry. Miss 

*Mrs. O. Horsey (Hon. Member) Miss 

Mrs. Robert Hinckley. Miss 



Harry P. Huse. 
J. J. Jackson. 
Plowden Jenkins. 
J. Kinear. 
Virginia King. 
Frederick von Kapff. 
Margaret Leakin. 
Elizabeth Ligon. 
John M. Littig. 
Lloyd Lowndes. 
GUSTAV Lurman. 
Florence Mackubin. 
John R. Magruder. 
John Mullan. 
W. C. Nicholas. 
Juliana T. Paca. 
Mary S. W. Pearre. 
Wm. S. Powell. 
Anna M. Polk. 
John Ridgely of H. 
John Ritchie. 
Louisa Robinson. 
Henry Rogers. 
C. Lyon Rogers. 
Albert L. Sioussat. 
V. McBlair Smith. 
Mary E. Steuart. 
Henrietta Steuart. 
Mary Tilghman. 



"Deceased. 



Mrs. Ridgely of H, 
General Chairman. 

Mrs. Bateman— Talbot County. 
Mrs. Calvert— Prince George's County. 
Mrs. Gill— Baltimore County. 
Mrs, Hamilton — Washington County. 
Miss Ligon— Baltimore County. 
Miss Mackubin— Anne Arundel County. 
Miss Pearre— District of Columbia. 
"Mrs. Ritchie— Frederick County. 
Mrs. C. Lyon Rogers — Baltimore County. 
Mrs. Sioussat— St. Mary's and Calvert Counties. 

Chairmen of Sub-Committees. 



CHAPTER I. 

Our sister colony of Plymouth has been more careful 
of early records, and in the preservation of local traditions 
than we have been in Maryland; for not only has the number 
been kept of those who succumbed to the hardships of the 
first winter, but a knowledge of the exact spot, where the 
martyrs of the expedition were buried, has been handed down 
to posterity. Others of their dead were laid around the 
rough log fort erected on the hill overlooking the town and 
harbor of Plymouth and used also as a place of worship. In 
fact this custom prevailed until days of comparative security, 
when the colonists sought new centers of settlement. Burial 
Hill remains to this day, with a large number of eighteenth 
century gravestones to prove its title to that name, while a 
tablet marks the site of the log building which served the 
double purpose of meeting-house and fort. 

Although we of Maryland can show no monument to in- 
dicate the spot where our first settlers were buried, we have 
our traditions about the Indian building converted by them 
into a Christian Chapel; and Mr. James W. Thomas, an anti- 
quarian who has given much time to the subject has drawn 
a map showing where its successor stood. Around this 
chapel was ''Ye ordinary burying place in St. Maries Chapell 
Yard," alluded to in John Lloyd's will, dated 1658. This 
was the earliest of which we have any record. As late as 
1683, about fifty years after the landing of the Maryland 
Pilgrims, we find the following provisions, made apparently 
for a new grave yard: 

" To the Hon'ble Secretaries of the Providence : 
These : 

' ' Ordered and granted by his lordship in council that what quantity 
of land shall be thought necessary to be laid out for the Chapell, State- 
house and Burying place at the City of St. Maries shall (to save any 
man's particular Right and Property there whole and entire) be supplied 
by some other of his lordship's land thereunto contiguous, least preju- 
dicial to his Lordship." 

This land at least has been identified, for the State House 
was converted into an Episcopal Church at the time of its 
establishment in the province, and was standing till the 
year 1829. Near its site, which within recent years has been 



marked by low granite pillars, a subterranean vault was dis- 
covered where tradition says a Colonial Governor is buried. 
The question has been settled beyond a doubt, that this was 
Sir Lionel Copley, the first Royal Governor. He was sent 
over in 1691, and died in less than two years after his arrival, 
and it is a matter of record that he and his wife are buried 
in a vault at St. Mary's. 

The gravestone of the earliest date yet found in Maryland 
lies in Anne Arundel County, that section of the Province 
which in 1649-1650 saw the arrival of the Puritans, who flee- 
ing from persecution in Virginia, soon became conspicuous in 
public affairs. This record-breaker records the virtues of a 
wife and "mother deare", who ran her race and in 1665 was 
laid to rest. Near it lies a memorial to Christopher Birk- 
head, who died in 1676. For more than two hundred years 
these stones lay at "Birkhead's Meadows". This was doubt- 
less a portion of the tract of 1300 acres confirmed to Christopher 
Birkhead in 1666, and possibly lay near the house of Abraham 
Birkhead, the scene of one of the many triumphs of George 
Fox, the Quaker, by whom the ' ' Speaker of the Assembly 
was convinced." In 1888 the Birkhead tombstones were 
moved to St. James Parish Churchyard and their scanty his- 
tory shows a custom in Maryland — namely that of burying 
the dead in private grounds— which has been the cause why 
so few graves from remote times have been preserved. 
Where nearly every freeman, whether a gentleman adven- 
turer or otherwise, was a "Planter", his home cut off from 
those of his kind, often by miles of territory, became the 
nucleus of a small community like the castle of some feudal 
lord. What more natural than that he should provide a place 
of burial for members of his family and his dependents, 
which sacred spot by the lapse of time and change of owner- 
ship, was first neglected, then forgotten and finally lost. 

Out of the twenty-seven seventeenth-century tombstones 
so far discovered and recorded by the Memorial Committee 
of the Maryland Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 
ten have come to light in Anne Arundel County alone ; for 
besides those of the Birkheads, we find memorials to Maj. 
Thomas Francis in 1685, to Col. William Burgess in 1686— 
both of whom held, among other offices, that of Councillor, 



Colonel Burgess having also served as Deputy Governor and 
as General of the military forces of the Province— to his son 
William and his daughter Anne, 1698 and 1697 ; to Col. 
Nicholas Greenberry, who was Keeper of the Great Seal, act- 
ing temporarily as Governor upon the death of Sir Lionel 
Copley, besides filling other positions of honor and trust, 
1697; to his wife, Anne, 1698, and to his son-in-law, Henry 
Ridgely, 1699. The latter was son of the Councillor of the 
same name. Nicholas Gassaway, who died the same year, 
completes the number. 

An unique specimen of this kind of memorial is to be 
found in St. Mary's County. The inscription, which is en- 
tirely in Latin, records the name of Francis Sourton, who 
died in 1679, and a portion of it forms a border around the 
edge of the stone. It was exhumed in 1886 by the sexton of 
Old Poplar Hill or St. George's Church, while digging a grave, 
and the Rector Rev. Maurice Vaughan, reported the discovery 
to the Maryland Historical Society shortly afterward, but 
nothing was done until about the year 1896, when through 
the instrumentality of the late Mr. Buck, Rector of Rock 
Creek Parish, Washington, D. C, it was removed to the East 
wall of the vestry room. It is in a fairly good state of pres- 
ervation, but the meaning of the heraldic devices that adorn 
its lower half, has so far defied the skill of those who are 
supposed to be proficient in the ancient art of heraldry. 

Two stones, which originally lay in Calvert County, but 
which by the subsequent extension of St. Mary's boundaries, 
are to be found at present in the latter section, carry us back 
to some of the dramatic incidents of Maryland history. That 
of Christopher Rouseby, who died in 1684, opens to us a 
chapter which reveals the jealousy existing between the 
King's collectors of revenue and those of the Lord Proprie- 
tary, culminating in the death of Christopher Rouseby, the 
King's officer, at the hands of George Talbot, "Lord of the 
Northern Marshes. " Rouseby 's tomb, which records also the 
death of his brother John, in 1685, lies on the St. Mary's side 
of the Patuxent, across the river from the historic seat of 
the family, "Rouseby Hall." 

Maj. Thomas Truman is the other figure on this back- 
ground of the past. He left no male descendants to perpet- 



uate his name or to keep his memory green, but his impeach- 
ment in 1676 for the barbarous murder of five indians, his 
subsequent release from confinement, and his restoration in 
1684— the year before his death — to posts of honor under his 
Lordship's government, all come back to us at the mention 
of his place of sepulture. Near him lie his wife Mary, who 
died in 1686; his brother Nathaniel Truman, Commissioner 
for the Peace in 1675-1676, who departed this life 1678; his 
brother James, who died in 1672, and other members of his 
family, whose deaths occurred during the following century. 

James Truman in his will dated 1672, mentions his 
daughters Martha, Mary and Elizabeth, whom he left to the 
care of his two brothers in case of his widow's marriage. 
This lady was named Anne, and her tomb, found after much 
diligent search on a farm near Prince Frederick, Calvert 
County, shows that she consoled herself for her loss by becom- 
ing the wife of Robert Skinner, "Gent." She died at the age 
of 75, having lived, as her tomb-stones imforms us, near half 
that time a widow. 

A monument to Truman's fellow-councillor. Col. William 
Stevens, dated 1687, was exhumed by the Rev. Dr. Vallan- 
digan, of Newark, Delaware, in 1853. It stands in a lonely 
position near the Pocomoke River, in Somerset County. 
Another Eastern Shore stone which before long may be 
difficult to locate is that of Francis Butler, Gent., who, 
elevated to the post of High Sheriff of Talbot Couniy shortly 
after his arrival in Maryland, lived but a few months to 
enjoy the honors of his position. He was drowned in 
Michael's River in the year 1689. 

In the private burying ground at Wye House, Talbot 
County, which so far is the only one where the dead of two 
centuries repose side by side with their descendants of the 
sixth or seventh generation. Col. Philemon Lloyd, one of our 
well-known dignitaries, was buried in 1685, his wife, a 
namesake of the unfortunate Queen Henrietta Maria, fol- 
lowing him in 1697. Three daughters, all of whom died 
before 1695, are buried there also. The oldest stone in this 
graveyard is that of Capt. James Strong, of Stepney, in the 
County of Middlesex. Above the inscription is a coat-of- 
arms in which palmer shells and crosslets fitchee are con- 



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spicuous. As an offset to this "boast of heraldry" the 
inevitable skull and cross-bones follow. 

At the Hermitage, Queen Anne County, lie the remains 
of Dr. Richard Tilghman, the progenitor of the Tilghman 
family, also those of his wife Mary Foxley. He died in 1675 
and she survived him twenty years. The graveyard is kept 
in good order and the names of those buried there furnish an 
interesting list of Tilghmans who distinguished themselves in 
their day and generation. 

One Stone that stands, not only as a memorial to a 
seventeenth century character, but as a monument to a 
daughter's filial piety, is that of Thomas Impey, a native of 
Hartfordshire, who died in 1686. It is to be found on the 
farm of the late James Hazlett in the Bay Hundred District, 
Talbot County, having been erected in 1752 according to pro- 
visions made in the will of his daughter, Mary Dawson. 

Bennett's Point, once the property of Richard Bennett 
the third— the son by a first marriage of Henrietta Maria, 
whom we have mentioned as ancestress of the Lloyds of 
Wye— has the remains of a graveyard, which we notice here 
on account of the fragmentary tablet that lies amidst the 
debris of mortuary remains of a latter generation! It com- 
memorates the death of a certain Capt Thomas Green, Mas- 
ter Mariner of the Town of Newcastle on Lyne, Commander 
of the "Loving Friendship", who died at sea, presumedly the 
17th of August, 1674. 

A seventeenth century character, whose monument is 
not visible, was George Robins, who settled in Talbot County 
in 1670, upon a tract of a thousand acres, which came to him 
under the name of "Job's Content", but descended to 
posterity as "Peach Blossom". On this place which has 
passed into the hands of strangers, and about a stone's throw 
from the barn, is a promiscuous heap, where young trees and 
bushes seem to have thriven in spite of the rival claims of 
marble, brick and stone. A broken arch, supporting the 
mass on one side, seems to have served the same purpose as 
a bit of wreck on a sandy beach, which catches and holds 
what time and tide waft in its direction. Under this drift of 
the centuries George Robins lies, while several memorials to 



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his descendants, one of which shows a finely executed escut- 
cheon, border the mortuary pile. 

The last seventeenth century tombstone we have to re- 
cord at present is that of Capt. James Murphy, who per- 
petuated the title of one of the first tracts of land laid out in 
Talbot County. He died in 1698 and was buried on Rich 
Neck, a few miles from St. Michael's. 

Another monument which would increase our number to 
twenty-eight, if it were a gravestone, is that of Augustine 
Herman, which of late years has been inserted in the wall of 
the house on his "Manour Plantation", overlooking the 
Bohemia River. He speaks of it in his will as his "Monu- 
ment Stone", and it was probably prepared in his life-time, 
for it does not record his death, which occurred about the year 
1686. We do not know whether it ever marked his grave— 
a spot impossible to identify at present— and although it was 
used by a latter generation as a door to a vault, it can hardly 
be considered a memorial of anything but what is represented 
on its surface: 

AVGVTINE HERMEN, 

Bohemian, 

THE FIRST FOVNDER, 

seater of Behemea Manner, 

ANNO, 1661. 



THE 17th century INSCRIPTIONS. 
The Two Birkhead Stones: 

This Register is for her bones 
Her fame is more perpetual than ye stones 
and Stil her Vertues through her life be gone 
Shall live when earthly monuments are none. 
Who reading this can chuse but drop a teare 
For such a wife & such a Mother deare. 
She ran her race & now is laid to rest 
& Allalugia singes among the blest. 



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Here lyeth the 
Body of Christopher Birkhead 

of 227 of Bristol 

Ano 1676 



Here lyeth the body of 

Major Thomas Francies 

who deceased ye 19 March 

Anno 1685 Aged 42 years. 

" Tho' now in Silence I am lowly laid 
Ha ! 'tis that place for mortalls made. 
ther'fore doe not thou thyself more greive 
Mourne ye noe more doe yeself Releive 
And then in time I hope you'l plainly see 
Such future Comforts as are blessing mee. 
For tho' grim death thought fitt to part us 
Rejoyce & think that wee shall once appear 
At that great day when all shall sumonds be 
None to be Exempt 'd in this Eternitie. 
Cause then itt soe greive ye no more 
In fear that God should the Afflict most sore 
Even to death and all to Let you see 
Such greives to him offencive bee." 



Here lyeth ye body of Wm. Burgess Esq who departed 
this life on ye 24 day of Janu Anno Domini 1686 Aged about 
64 yrs. Leaving his dear beloved wife Ursuhla & Eleven 
children viz : seven sons and four daughters and 8 grand- 
children. In his life time he was a member of His Lord- 
ships Counsell of Estate, One of his Lordships deputy Gov- 
ernours a Justice of ye High Provincial Court Collon of a 
Regiment of the trained Guards and sometime Generall of 
all the Military forces of this Province. His loving wife 
Ursulah his Execut. in testimony of her true respect and 
due regard to the worthy deserts of her dear departed hus- 
band, hath erected this Memorial. 



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Here lyeth the Body of William Burgess the eldest son 
that coll. William Burgess had by his Dear and Loveing 
wife Ursella, he departed this life the 28th Day of June in 
the year of his age, Anno Domini 1698. 



Here lyeth Interred ye Body of Anne the wife of Thomas 
Sparrow daughter of William Burgess and Ursulla his wife, 
who was born on Thursday the 7th of Oct. 1680 Married on 
Tuesday ye 8th June 1697 Sickened the 25th day of ye same 
month and dyed on Sunday ye 25 of July 1697. This stone 
is erected as a Lasting Memorial of the person above Men- 
tioned, by her surviving husband Mr. Thomas Sparrow. 



Here lieth Interred The Body of Colin Nicholas Green- 
berry Esqr who departed this Life The 17th Day of Decem- 
ber 1697 Aetatis Suae 70 



Here Lieth Interred The Body of Mrs. Ann Greenberry 
who Departed This Life The 27th Day of April 1^8 Aetatis 
Suae 50. 1/ 



Here Lyeth the body of Mr. Henry Ridgely who was 
borne the 3rd of October 1669 and departed this life on ye 
19th day of March 1699. 



Here Lyeth Interred The Body of Nicholas Gassaway 
Son of Coll. Nicholas Gassaway who Departed This Life 10 
Day of March Anno Domi. 1699 And In The 31 Year of His 
Age. 



Here lyeth the Body of Xphr. Rousbie Esquire who was 
taken out of this World by A voilent Death received on Board 
his Majesty's Ship the Quaker Ketch, Capt. Thos. Allen 
Commandr. the last day of Octr. 1684 and alsoe of Mr. John 
Rousbie his brother who departed this natural (1) Life on 
Board theShip Baltemore Being arrived in Patuxon River the 
first day of February 1685. 



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Here lyeth the body of James Truman, Gent, who died 
the 7th of August 1672 being aged 50 years. 



Here lyeth the body of Thomas Truman Esqr. who died 
the 6th day of December Anno. 1685. Aged 60 years. "The 
Memory of the Just is Blessed." Prov. ye lOch. & ye 7th 
verse. 



Here lyeth the body of Nathaniel Truman, Gent, who 
died the 4th of March 1678 being aged years. 



Here lyeth the body of Mary, wife and Relict of Thomas 
Truman Esqr. who died the 6th of July 1686. Agen 52 
years. 



Francis Sourton, Anglo-Devon Francisci Filius Veritas 
Evangelical Atque Ecclesiastes, Heic Sedulus Vita Rrevi & 
Saepius Aflicta Functus est Sep. 1679. 

N. B. —The legend following the above is much defaced 
by time. A version of it, translated, reads as follows ; 

* 'And thou reader, living in the Lord Jesus Christ, keep 
the faith, and thou also though dead shalt live." 



Here lyeth the Body of William Stevens Esq. Who de- 
parted this life the 23rd day of December 1687 Aged 57 
years. He was 22 years Judge of this County Court. One 
of his Lordship's Councill and one of the the Deputy Lieuten- 
ants of this Province of Maryland. "Vivit Post Funera 
Virtus." 



Here lyeth immured ye bodye of Francis Butler, Gent, 
son of Rhoderick Butler, Gent, who was unfortunately 
drowned in St. Michael's River, the 3rd Mar. 1689, aged 42 
years or thereabout, Momento Mori. 



14 

AT WYE, TALBOT CO. 

Here lyeth Interred the Body of Capt. James Strong of 
Stepney in the County of Midd: Marrine, second son of Capt. 
Fetter Strong. Departed this life y 8 day of Jan. 1684. 

A yeare 2 months XI dayes. 

Le one Son on . . Daught . . 

"The memory of ye . . st is Blessed " 
This stone is cracked in six places and restored. 



Here li's inter'd the Body of Coll Philemon Lloyd, the 
son of E. Lloyd & Alice his wife, who died the 22d of June 
1685 in the 39th year of his age leaving 3 sons and 7 daugh- 
ters All by his beloved wife Henrietta Maria. 

[No] more than this the Author says 
[B]ut leaves his life to speak his praise." 
Memento Mori. 

This stone is in three pieces restored. 



Shee that now takes her Rest within this tomb 
Had Rachell's face and Lea's fruitful womb 

Abigail's wisdom Lydea's faithful heart 
With Martha's care and Mary's better part. 

Who Died The 21st Day of M Dom. 1697 

Aged 50 years Months 23 Dayes. To whose Memory 

Richard (Bennett) Dedicates this Tomb. 



Most of the lines are incomplete at the end, but have 
been filled in here to give the sense. 

Jane, Mary and Elizabeth, daughters of the above, died 
respectively in 1690, 1690 and 1694. 

The tomb-stone of Mrs. Henrietta Maria Neale is dec- 
orated by two armorial lozenges above, and skull and cross- 
bones below. Bennett and Neale are represented on the one 
and Lloyd and Neale on the other. 

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At the "Hermitage," a flat slab is indicated as covering 
the spot where the first Tilghman lies. The inscription has 
become obliterated. It ran pretty much as follows : 

''Always remember 
the 5th of November 
But Doe not forge tt 
Death will have no lett 

Consider thy end 

and thy time well spend 

and soe shalt thou have 

a crown in thy grave." 

Vale. 

Ita dixit Richardus tilghmanus 

B. M. 

In artique chirugii 

Magister 

qui sub hoc tumulo 

Sepultus est 

Obiit Janu 7mo Anno 

1675. 

The exact wording of the inscription on Capt. Murphy's 
tomb has not yet been obtained. He died in 1698. 














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